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https://youtu.be/w5puocJ-NtA Residents in Barcelona, Spain took to the streets on October 2, 2017 to protest the violent police crackdown during Catalonia’s banned independence referendum on October 1, 2017. People waved Catalan pro-independence ‘Estelada’ flags as they took part in a protest in Barcelona. “The central government has been consistent with its historical performance until the end, that is to say that mean every time they have not been able to solve any issue that […]
by Laurence Boutreux Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — From a grandmother whose wrist was broken to an independence supporter violently hit in the head, several people who were injured by police during Catalonia’s independence referendum banned by Madrid told AFP of their ordeal. Shocking footage of police violence went round the world, sparking controversy over what critics described as “the disproportionate use” of police force and the “humiliation” of voters — sometimes elderly […]
by Marianne Barriaux Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Large numbers of Catalans are expected to observe a general strike on Tuesday to condemn police violence at a banned weekend referendum on independence, as Madrid comes under growing international pressure to resolve its worst political crisis in decades. Flights and train services could be disrupted as well as port operations, after unions called for the stoppage to “vigorously condemn” the police response to the […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — About 10,000 people in Berlin were forced to leave their homes on Monday as bomb disposal units prepared to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb. Construction workers found the 250-kilo (550-pound) device earlier in the day, prompting police to seal off the area within a 500-metre radius of the site in west Berlin’s Innsbrucker Platz. Underground and suburban rail traffic was disrupted, and officers went house to house to ensure […]
by Tolkun Namatbayeva Agence France-Presse BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) – Storming through a crowded bazaar in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, presidential candidate Toktayim Umetalieva is in her element, hugging babies and female traders. Unlike the two male contenders viewed as favorites to win the hotly contested presidential election on October 15, 55-year-old Umetalieva is no newcomer to the ballot, but she will be a rank outsider. The combative rights activist first ran for president in 2005, just […]
Paris, France (AFP) — The Eiffel Tower went dark on Monday night in tribute to the victims of the attacks in Las Vegas and Marseille. At least 59 people were killed and hundreds wounded Sunday when a gunman opened fire on a concert in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Earlier Sunday, a man knifed two young women to death outside the main train station in Marseille, France’s second-biggest city. […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France Presse LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Police recovered a huge cache of guns and explosives Monday from the Las Vegas hotel room and home of the man accused of killing at least 59 people and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. US officials reacted cautiously meanwhile to an Islamic State claim that Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, had carried out Sunday night’s massacre on the […]
by Philippe Agret Agence France-Presse STRASBOURG, France (AFP) – The European Parliament is set to say Tuesday that Brexit divorce talks have made insufficient progress, in a blow to British hopes of unlocking negotiations on a future trade deal this month. MEPs meeting in Strasbourg, France, will vote on a resolution calling on EU leaders to postpone a decision, scheduled for a summit on October 19, on whether to move on to the next phase of talks. […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump condemned the massacre of at least 59 Las Vegas concert goers as an “act of pure evil” Monday, but refrained from addressing calls for gun control or the motives for the worst mass shooting in recent US history. Delivering televised remarks, Trump tried to offer consolation and called for unity — an act that has become a grim rite of passage for modern US […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — A double suicide bomb attack hit a police station in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, state media said, with a monitor saying at least 16 people were killed. Damascus has been largely insulated from the worst of the violence during the country’s brutal six-year war, but several bomb attacks have shaken the city. Syria’s interior ministry said two suicide bombers had blown themselves up at the police station in the southern […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) – Stephen Craig Paddock, the retired accountant who smuggled an arsenal into a swank Las Vegas hotel and mowed down concert-goers from a 32nd story window, was a high-stakes gambler whose bank-robber father was once on the FBI’s most wanted list. The 64-year-old had a home with his girlfriend in a tranquil golf course retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of the US gambling capital, and regularly sent […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Paris prosecutor has opened an anti-terror investigation after the discovery at the weekend of a homemade bomb at a building in Paris and five people have been arrested, sources close to the case said Monday. Police discovered two cylinders of gas in the hall of a building in the city’s posh 16th arrondissement and two others on the pavement. They also found a mobile phone linked to the cylinders, which […]
